FOR ALL! - The English Department is sponsoring an essay contest. If you have a stellar paper you would like to submit, please check out this flyer and feel free to submit your paper. If you would like editing help, you could go to the Writing Center to double check your work.
UNIT 2: Wed. April 27 - Last day I will accept revisions of Unit 2
UNIT 3: Unit 3 revisions - due one week from the time returned to you.
The time it was returned to you will be on Bb.
UNIT 4: Due on Bb at 11:59 pm Friday, April 29
Please upload your visual argument to Bb in Unit 4. Yes, your
Evaluation paper is already there--put your visual argument
there as well. If you cannot upload the actual project,
then create a link to it and upload the link. Please do not email
me your work.
OFFICE HOURS: I do not have official office hours next week
during exams. If you need to meet with me, please email me
to set up a time. I will be on campus Monday, Wednesday,
and Thursday.
HW grades: They have been posted on Bb. There are not final
grades, but are very close. Grammar Game points have
not been calculated yet.
FINALS
2:00 CLASS:
Mon. May 2 - Final exam, 2:00 to 4:00 pm, ANS 253.
3:30 CLASS:
Wed. May 4 - Final exam, 2:00 to 4:00 pm, ANS 308 FINAL: You may complete your final exam as a take-home
and turn it in on Blackboard any time before the scheduled
exam period. However, if you have NOT completed the exam
by exam time, I WILL NOT ACCEPT AN EXAM IF YOU
DON'T SHOW UP.
In other words, you have two choices: complete the exam
BEFORE exam time or show up during the exam time. If I
do not have your exam before our scheduled meeting time
and you don't show up for the exam time, I WILL GIVE YOU
A ZERO.
FOR WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27
Wednesday will be the last day our class meets before
our final exam time. Please be sure to attend to see the
rest of your peers' work and any final class information
that pertains to revisions, grades, and your finals.
Please see below for upcoming due dates.
In addition, all unit 3 revisions are due within one week of
when I graded it and returned it to you. The grade your paper
was returned to you is recorded in Bb. If you have not gotten
your paper back yet, you will still have one week from
the time it is returned to you. Two revisions, however, is not
likely to happen without a serious need.
FINAL: You may complete your final exam as a take-home
and turn it in on Blackboard any time before the scheduled
exam period. However, if you have NOT completed the exam
by exam time, I WILL NOT ACCEPT AN EXAM IF YOU
DON'T SHOW UP.
In other words, you have two choices: complete the exam
BEFORE exam time or show up during the exam time. If I
do not have your exam before our scheduled meeting time
and you don't show up for the exam time, I WILL GIVE YOU
A ZERO.
FOR MONDAY, APRIL 25
We will be doing "peer review" of your Unit 4 visual argument.
Please have your project ready for "show and tell" and make sure
you have a way to share it with the class.
UPCOMING DUE DATES:
Wed. April 27 - Last day I will accept revisions of Unit 2
Friday, April 29 - Unit 4 visual argument due on Bb in Unit 4
2:00 CLASS:
Mon. May 2 - Final exam, 2:00 to 4:00 pm, ANS 253.
3:30 CLASS:
Wed. May 4 - Final exam, 2:00 to 4:00 pm, ANS 308
FOR WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20
The writing portion--the four-page evaluation paper--of Unit 4
is due Wednesday, April 20, at midnight.
- If you want to revise Unit 2, you MUST see me by April 20
- Please keep an eye on Bb as I am uploading papers as they
are graded. Revisions are due as soon as humanly possible.
IF YOU MISSED CLASS
Check out the Pp on Course Materials on Color
- Check out the Final Exam prompt on Course Materials
- I am awarding "participation" points for attending class
and working diligently to make good use of class time.
FOR MONDAY, APRIL 18
If you want to revise Unit 2 once more, you MUST come see me
by April 20.
Your evaluation paper is due on Bb by Wednesday, April 20
IF YOU MISSED CLASS
Please read the chapter on writing evaluations. It's in Course
Materials under Unit 4 Materials.
The class developed criteria for their evaluations. Because you
missed class, you will have to develop your own. Please note that
you should evaluate a movie if you're making a movie, a poster if
you're making a poster, etc.
FOR WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13
1. Please have a copy of, link to, or picture of the piece you plan
to evaluate for your paper.
2. Please write up (hard copy so you can give it to me) a quick
idea of what you plan to do for your project. Please include these
things:
- who you see as your audience
- what your thesis is
- what your project will be/what genre or medium
- what you will be evaluating
IF YOU MISSED CLASS:
On the "course materials" page is the Unit 4 handout; you should
read that carefully. Beneath that is a Powerpoint--you won't get
much out of it without discussion, but look at it anyway. Then
follow the instructions above.
FOR MONDAY, APRIL 11
Your Unit 3 paper is due on Bb by 11:59 pm.
FOR WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6
1. Your responses to your peers' papers for peer review need to
be back up on the wiki--with your name at the end--by 11:59 pm
Tuesday night. I am giving credit for doing these WELL and being
helpful, so be helpful! Zero credit if you don't give SUBSTANTIAL
feedback.
2. Please bring a HARD COPY of your unit 3 paper, works cited
and all, to class Wednesday.
3. If you are in my 3:30 class, we meet in ANS 151 on Wednesday.
CONFERENCES are required:
2 HW credits for showing up Up to 3 HW credits for coming prepared:
1 for having a draft
1 for having questions for me
1 for having all the required elements
(sources, data, data display, data commentary,
sections, secondary research, works cited page
WHEN WE RETURN IN APRIL EXAM 3 will be Monday, April 4, Peer review draft posted to your wiki group by Saturday, April 2,(11:59pm) Peer's papers reviewed and posted back to the wiki group page by Tuesday, April 5
(11:59pm)
FOR MONDAY, MAR. 21
Your primary research must be completed by Monday. Bring your
signed interview consent forms, your survey results, or your
observation results to class for credit. You MAY NOT CONDUCT
PRIMARY RESEARCH WITHOUT MY APPROVAL, AND YOU MUST
USE THE CONSENT FORMS.
IF YOU MISSED CLASS:
Watch the Pp on the Course materials page.
If you are not conducting a survey, you will need to find your own data,
as it is required.
We also got signed up for upcoming conferences, so you will
need to sign yourself up here: Unit 3 Conference Sign Up
FOR WEDNESDAY, MAR. 16
Nothing is due.
IF YOU MISSED CLASS you need to email me your
primary research plans for approval. A template for your Unit 3 paper
is in Course Materials.
FOR MONDAY, MAR. 14
Your primary research plans and questions must be complete. So:
if you're doing a survey, I need all your survey questions for approval
- if you're doing an interview, I need your interview questions for approval
- if you're doing an observation, I need to know what, when, where, and
what questions you want to answer.
NO RESEARCH MAY BE CONDUCTED WITHOUT MY APPROVAL
IF YOU MISSED CLASS:
Read the "Primary Research" handout in "Course Materials" and prepare
your research as above.
FOR WED MAR. 2
Have your 2 peer-reviewed academic sources, read and annotate
them, and start generating questions for your research
DUE DATES - JUST TO CLARIFY!
2:00 pm class
Unit 1 - see me next week for revisions
Unit 2 - was due on Bb Monday, Feb. 22
Unit 3 proposals - were due Wednesday, midnight.
3:30 pm class
Unit 1 - revisions due Friday, Feb. 26, 11:59 pm
Unit 2 - Was due on Bb on Monday, Feb. 22
Unit 3 proposals - were due Wednesday, midnight
SO...
Obviously we had online class on Wednesday. That means that
there was work for you to do. Some of you did it, and some did not.
For those who have completed their proposals and uploaded them,
you have no homework.
For those who either did not "attend" class Wednesday or simply
did not do the work, you still have a proposal due. It was due
Wednesday at midnight, but you may NOT work on Unit 3 without
an approved proposal.
Proposals are worth 50 points (5% of your grade), so you want to
do well, especially since I will NOT do revisions on these unless
your proposal is rejected. Get these to me ASAP.
FOR MONDAY, FEB. 29
Nothing is due unless I rejected your proposal, which is (was) due
on Wed. Feb. 24 at 11:59 pm on Bb in the "HW and Other" folder
on Bb.
IF YOU MISSED CLASS.
Many of you did not participate in class on Wednesday and lost
credit for that. So if you didn't show up, go to the "Readings and
Links" page of the wiki and watch the Powerpoint. Then go to
the "Course Materials" page and follow the instructions for your
proposals. You will lose 5% per day the proposals are late, so
be sure to turn them in pronto!
FOR WEDNESDAY, FEB. 24
WE ARE MEETING ONLINE TODAY!!!
PLEASE GO TO BLACKBOARD PROMPTLY AT CLASS TIME
AND THERE YOU WILL FIND INSTRUCTIONS.
FOR MONDAY, FEB. 22
- We have Exam 2 on Monday. The reading is on the "Readings and
Links" page of the wiki. Please read the article before coming to
the exam. You may print it out and bring it with you, including
notes.
- Your Unit 2 paper is due on Blackboard in the Unit 2 link on
Monday, Feb. 22, at 11:59 pm.
- A rough draft of your Unit 3 proposal will be due in class on
Wednesday, Feb. 24. Please email me with your ideas!
FOR WEDNESDAY, FEB. 17
Wednesday is peer review. Please upload your Unit 2 paper on the group page for your class 24 hours before your class time.
This means if you have class at 2:00 Wednesday, you must have
your paper on the wiki by 2:00 Tuesday. Please
FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS EXACTLY on the page to upload.
Either print out the two paper you read or have a laptop in class
REMINDER: 3:30 CLASS: WE ARE IN ANS 151 ON WEDNESDAY
IF YOU MISSED CLASS:
We went over formatting the title page, writing the abstract, page
formatting, and citing issues for APA. You will be responsible for
looking this up on your own and doing it correctly on your paper.
FOR MONDAY, FEB. 15
Rough draft of Unit 2 due. Please bring a digital copy so you can
work on it on the computer.
IF YOU MISSED CLASS
Please go to the "Course Materials" page and at the top, under
"Unit Three Materials" is a handout explaining your proposal
that will be due in two weeks for your Unit 3 project. Keep this
deadline in mind and start brainstorming about your project,
which can be on anything locally researchable that deals with
writing and/or rhetoric and/or language.
FOR WEDNESDAY, FEB. 10
Please have all your research done (6 sources) and have read
them all. Any kind of source is acceptable--no need for academic
sources (although you can use them, too). But reference materials
(dictionaries, wikipedia, etc.) can only be used in addition
to the required 6 sources. Please bring them to class (links
to them are fine).
IF YOU MISSED CLASS:
Please email me and tell me what you want to write your paper on.
We got started on creating a references page in APA
so go to Purdue OWL and look up how to do that.
FOR MONDAY, FEB. 8
Please write up a short paragraph about what you would like to write
your next paper on. Remember that it has to be a mediation paper,
so you want it to have a sense of controversy to it, and it should
have depth. And it has to have something to do with how humans
use words/are rhetorical.
IF YOU MISSED CLASS:
Read the handout in "Course Materials' for Unit 2. We spent the
whole day working on understanding what a mediated paper is and
possible topics for the paper, so that really can't be made up. Ask
a classmate if you would like to be filled in.
FOR WEDNESDAY, FEB. 3
Please go to the "Readings and Links" page. Find your name and
read the two articles below your name. As you read, jot down as
many ideas as you can that answer the question above the readings.
Bring your answers to class.
FOR MONDAY, FEB. 1
1. Your paper is due on Blackboard in "Assignments" under "Unit 1"
at 11:59 pm, Monday.
2. you have an exam in class on Monday. Please read this article, print it out, write on it, annotate, do whatever
you would like and bring it to class with you, and be prepared to write
about it.
IF YOU MISSED CLASS: We had a style lesson on eliminating the verb "to be" as it is considered a weak verb. I will be grading you on this, so you will want to work on getting rid of is, are, were, and was
FOR WEDNESDAY, JAN. 27
1. READ (all on "Course Materials" page under "General Materials"):
- Handout on intros and conclusions
- Handout on thesis statements
- Rubric for Unit 1 paper
2. WRITE:
- Peer review draft due. Please bring 3 hard copies to class.
IF YOU MISSED CLASS:
- We had a style lesson on semi-colons, colons, and dashes.
You should look up how to use these punctuation tools and
implement them in your Unit 1 paper. I will be grading them.
- We created vomit drafts by typing for 10 minutes without your screen
turned on. You should try it.
- We had a lecture on the rhetorical situation (based on the reading).
You may want to get notes from a friend/classmate.
FOR THE END OF THE SEMESTER
UNIT 2: Thu. April 28 - Last day I will accept revisions of Unit 2
UNIT 3: Unit 3 revisions - due one week from the time returned to you.
The time it was returned to you will be on Bb.
UNIT 4: Due on Bb at 11:59 pm Friday, April 29
Please upload your visual argument to Bb in Unit 4. Yes, your
Evaluation paper is already there--put your visual argument
there as well. If you cannot upload the actual project,
then create a link to it and upload the link. Please do not email
me your work.
OFFICE HOURS: I do not have official office hours next week
during exams. If you need to meet with me, please email me
to set up a time. I will be on campus Monday, Wednesday,
and Thursday.
HW grades: They have been posted on Bb. There are not final
grades, but are very close. Grammar Game points have
not been calculated yet.
FINALS
Thursday, May 5, 10:00 am, ANS 253. FINAL: You may complete your final exam as a take-home
and turn it in on Blackboard any time before the scheduled
exam period. However, if you have NOT completed the exam
by exam time, I WILL NOT ACCEPT AN EXAM IF YOU
DON'T SHOW UP.
In other words, you have two choices: complete the exam
BEFORE exam time or show up during the exam time. If I
do not have your exam before our scheduled meeting time
and you don't show up for the exam time, I WILL GIVE YOU
A ZERO.
FOR THURSDAY, APRIL 28
Thursday will be the last day our class meets before
our final exam time. Please be sure to attend to see the
rest of your peers' work and any final class information
that pertains to revisions, grades, and your finals.
Please see below for upcoming due dates.
In addition, all unit 3 revisions are due within one week of
when I graded it and returned it to you. The grade your paper
was returned to you is recorded in Bb. If you have not gotten
your paper back yet, you will still have one week from
the time it is returned to you. Two revisions, however, is not
likely to happen without a serious need.
FINAL: You may complete your final exam as a take-home
and turn it in on Blackboard any time before the scheduled
exam period. However, if you have NOT completed the exam
by exam time, I WILL NOT ACCEPT AN EXAM IF YOU
DON'T SHOW UP.
In other words, you have two choices: complete the exam
BEFORE exam time or show up during the exam time. If I
do not have your exam before our scheduled meeting time
and you don't show up for the exam time, I WILL GIVE YOU
A ZERO.
FOR TUESDAY, APRIL 26
We will be doing "peer review" of your Unit 4 visual argument.
Please have your project ready for "show and tell" and make sure
you have a way to share it with the class.
UPCOMING DUE DATES:
Wed. April 27 - Last day I will accept revisions of Unit 2
Friday, April 29 - Unit 4 visual argument due on Bb in Unit 4 Thu. May 5 - Final exam, 10:00am to 12:00noon ANS 253
FOR THURSDAY, APRIL 21
The writing portion--the four-page evaluation paper--of Unit 4
is due Thursday, April 21, at midnight.
- If you want to revise Unit 2, you MUST see me by April 20
- Please keep an eye on Bb as I am uploading papers as they
are graded. Revisions are due as soon as humanly possible.
IF YOU MISSED CLASS
Check out the Pp on Course Materials on Color
- Check out the Final Exam prompt on Course Materials
- I am awarding "participation" points for attending class
and working diligently to make good use of class time.
FOR THURSDAY, APRIL 14
1. Please have a copy of, link to, or picture of the piece you plan
to evaluate for your paper.
2. Please write up (hard copy so you can give it to me) a quick
idea of what you plan to do for your project. Please include these
things:
- who you see as your audience
- what your thesis is
- what your project will be/what genre or medium
- what you will be evaluating
IF YOU MISSED CLASS:
On the "course materials" page is the Unit 4 handout; you should
read that carefully. Beneath that is a Powerpoint--you won't get
much out of it without discussion, but look at it anyway. Then
follow the instructions above.
FOR TUESDAY, APRIL 12
Your Unit 3 paper is due on Bb by 11:59 pm.
FOR THURSDAY, APRIL 7
1. Your responses to your peers' papers for peer review need to
be back up on the wiki--with your name at the end--by 11:59 pm
Wednesday night. I am giving credit for doing these WELL and being
helpful, so be helpful! Zero credit if you don't give SUBSTANTIAL
feedback.
2. Please bring a HARD COPY of your unit 3 paper, works cited
and all, to class Thursday.
CONFERENCES are required:
2 HW credits for showing up
Up to 3 HW credits for coming prepared:
1 for having a draft
1 for having questions for me
1 for having all the required elements
(sources, data, data display, data commentary,
sections, secondary research, works cited page
WHEN WE RETURN IN APRIL
EXAM 3 will be Tuesday, April 5,
Peer review draft posted to your wiki group by Sunday, April 3 (11:59pm),
Peer's papers reviewed and
posted back to the wiki group page by Tuesday, April 5 (11:59pm)
FOR TUESDAY, MAR. 22
Your primary research must be completed by Tuesday. Bring your
signed interview consent forms, your survey results, or your
observation results to class for credit. You MAY NOT CONDUCT
PRIMARY RESEARCH WITHOUT MY APPROVAL, AND YOU MUST
USE THE CONSENT FORMS.
IF YOU MISSED CLASS:
Watch the Pp on the Course materials page.
If you are not conducting a survey, you will need to find your own data,
as it is required.
We also got signed up for upcoming conferences, so you will
need to sign yourself up here: Unit 3 Conference Sign Up
FOR THURSDAY, MAR. 17
Nothing is due.
IF YOU MISSED CLASS you need to email me your
primary research plans for approval. A template for your Unit 3 paper
is in Course Materials.
FOR TUESDAY, MAR. 15
Your primary research plans and questions must be complete. So:
if you're doing a survey, I need all your survey questions for approval
- if you're doing an interview, I need your interview questions for approval
- if you're doing an observation, I need to know what, when, where, and
what questions you want to answer.
NO RESEARCH MAY BE CONDUCTED WITHOUT MY APPROVAL
IF YOU MISSED CLASS:
Read the "Primary Research" handout in "Course Materials" and prepare
your research as above.
FOR THU. MAR. 3
Have your 2 peer-reviewed academic sources, read and annotate
them, and start generating questions for your research
DUE DATES - JUST TO CLARIFY
Unit 1 - see me next week for revisions
Unit 2 - was due on Bb Tuesday, Feb. 23
Unit 3 proposals - were due Thursday night, midnight
SO...
Clearly class was cancelled Thursday, but I had prepared all our work
to be done online. Some of you did it, and some did not.
For those who have completed their proposals and uploaded them,
you have no homework.
For those who either did not "attend" class Thursday or simply
did not do the work, you still have a proposal due. It is due
Thursday at midnight, and you may NOT work on Unit 3 without
an approved proposal.
Proposals are worth 50 points (5% of your grade), so you want to
do well, especially since I will NOT do revisions on these unless
your proposal is rejected. Get these to me ASAP.
TO HELP YOU STAY ORGANIZED AND ON TOP OF DUE DATES
Unit 1: If you want to revise again, please see me this upcoming week
Unit 2: Was due Tuesday, midnight.
Unit 3 proposals: Due Thursday, Feb. 25, midnight.
FOR THURSDAY, FEB. 25
Unit 2 is due on Bb on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 11:59 pm. Unit 3 proposals--we will be working on these in class on Thursday (barring a snowstorm) so please bring your laptops if you have one or a printed version of your proposal. We will (hopefully) finish them in class on Thursday.
FOR TUESDAY, FEB. 23
- We have Exam 2 on Tuesday. The reading is on the "Readings and
Links" page of the wiki. Please read the article before coming to
the exam. You may print it out and bring it with you, including
notes.
- Revisions of Unit 1 are due on Bb on Friday, Feb. 19 at 11:59 pm.
- Your Unit 2 paper is due on Blackboard in the Unit 2 link on
Tuesday, Feb. 23, at 11:59 pm.
- A rough draft of your Unit 3 proposal will be due in class on
Thursday, Feb. 25. Please email me with your ideas!
FOR THURSDAY, FEB. 18
Thursday is peer review. Please upload your Unit 2 paper on the group page for your class 24 hours before your class time.
which means by 11:00 am Wednesday morning.. Please
FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS EXACTLY on the page to upload.
Either print out the two paper you read or have a laptop in class
FOR TUESDAY, FEB. 16
Rough/vomit draft of Unit 2 due. Please bring a digital copy to
work on in class.
IF YOU MISSED CLASS
Please go to the "Course Materials" page and at the top, under
"Unit Three Materials" is a handout explaining your proposal
that will be due in two weeks for your Unit 3 project. Keep this
deadline in mind and start brainstorming about your project,
which can be on anything locally researchable that deals with
writing and/or rhetoric and/or language.
FOR THURSDAY, FEB. 11
Please have all your research done (6 sources) and have read
them all. Any kind of source is acceptable--no need for academic
sources (although you can use them, too). But reference materials
(dictionaries, wikipedia, etc.) can only be used in addition
to the required 6 sources. Please bring them to class (links
to them are fine).
IF YOU MISSED CLASS:
Please email me and tell me what you want to write your paper on.
We got started on creating a references page in APA
so go to Purdue OWL and look up how to do that.
FOR TUESDAY, FEB. 9
Please write up a short paragraph about what you would like to write
your next paper on. Remember that it has to be a mediation paper,
so you want it to have a sense of controversy to it, and it should
have depth. And it has to have something to do with how humans
use words/are rhetorical.
IF YOU MISSED CLASS:
Read the handout in "Course Materials' for Unit 2. We spent the
whole day working on understanding what a mediated paper is and
possible topics for the paper, so that really can't be made up. Ask
a classmate if you would like to be filled in.
FOR THURSDAY, FEB. 4
Please go to the "Readings and Links" page. Find your name and read the two
articles below your name. As you read, jot down as many ideas as you can
that answer the question above the readings. Bring your answers to class.
FOR TUESDAY, FEB. 2
1. Your paper is due on Blackboard in "Assignments"
under "Unit 1" at 11:59 pm, Tuesday.
2. you have an exam in class on Tuesday. Please read this article, print it out, write on it, annotate, do whatever
you would like and bring it to class with you, and be prepared to write about it. IF YOU MISSED CLASS: We had a style lesson on eliminating the verb "to be" as it is considered a weak verb. I will be grading you on this, so you will want to work on getting rid of is, are, were, and was.
FOR THURSDAY, JAN. 28
Please print out three copies of your paper for peer review and bring them to class.
IF YOU MISSED CLASS: READ (all on "Course Materials" page under "General Materials"): - Handout on intros and conclusions - Handout on thesis statements - Rubric for Unit 1 paper
FOR TUESDAY, JAN. 26
Vomit draft due. We will be working on it in class. Handouts on logos, pathos, and ethos are in Course Materials under "General Materials"
FOR THURSDAY, JAN. 21 AND MONDAY JAN. 25
Please read the Rhetorical Situation article and be prepared to specifically discuss the terms exigence, rhetor, author, and constraints.
FOR TUESDAY, JAN. 19 or WEDNESDAY, JAN. 20 (ALL CLASSES)
Please read the chapter on Cause and Effect on the "Course Materials" page under Unit 1 materials.
Also write up a brief paragraph about the word you would like to write your first paper about. Tell me what word you've chosen and why, what you're thinking about discussing. You should also choose a second (and third?) word for a back up, and I can choose which one I think will work the best. If you are struggling to come up with something, please email me!
2:00 WEDNESDAY CLASS: please bring your laptop to class on Wednesday. You'll need it.
IF YOU MISSED CLASS:
Please watch the TED video on the "Readings and Links" page, and read the "Critical Thinking Guide" that is on the same page.
Also read the Unit 1 handout on the "Course Materials" page. Be sure to read the "Unit 1 - MW" which is for Monday/Wednesday classes.
FOR WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13 OR THURSDAY, JANUARY 14
Please read THIS ARTICLE and write a response to it by answering this question: in what ways does what Trimble says relate to your own writing? Just a half page or so. Bring to class.
MONDAY/WEDNESDAY CLASS
TUESDAY/THURSDAY CLASS
FOR THE END OF THE SEMESTER
UNIT 2: Wed. April 27 - Last day I will accept revisions of Unit 2UNIT 3: Unit 3 revisions - due one week from the time returned to you.
The time it was returned to you will be on Bb.
UNIT 4: Due on Bb at 11:59 pm Friday, April 29
Please upload your visual argument to Bb in Unit 4. Yes, your
Evaluation paper is already there--put your visual argument
there as well. If you cannot upload the actual project,
then create a link to it and upload the link. Please do not email
me your work.
OFFICE HOURS: I do not have official office hours next week
during exams. If you need to meet with me, please email me
to set up a time. I will be on campus Monday, Wednesday,
and Thursday.
HW grades: They have been posted on Bb. There are not final
grades, but are very close. Grammar Game points have
not been calculated yet.
FINALS
2:00 CLASS:
Mon. May 2 - Final exam, 2:00 to 4:00 pm, ANS 253.
3:30 CLASS:
Wed. May 4 - Final exam, 2:00 to 4:00 pm, ANS 308
FINAL: You may complete your final exam as a take-home
and turn it in on Blackboard any time before the scheduled
exam period. However, if you have NOT completed the exam
by exam time, I WILL NOT ACCEPT AN EXAM IF YOU
DON'T SHOW UP.
In other words, you have two choices: complete the exam
BEFORE exam time or show up during the exam time. If I
do not have your exam before our scheduled meeting time
and you don't show up for the exam time, I WILL GIVE YOU
A ZERO.
FOR WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27
Wednesday will be the last day our class meets beforeour final exam time. Please be sure to attend to see the
rest of your peers' work and any final class information
that pertains to revisions, grades, and your finals.
Please see below for upcoming due dates.
In addition, all unit 3 revisions are due within one week of
when I graded it and returned it to you. The grade your paper
was returned to you is recorded in Bb. If you have not gotten
your paper back yet, you will still have one week from
the time it is returned to you. Two revisions, however, is not
likely to happen without a serious need.
FINAL: You may complete your final exam as a take-home
and turn it in on Blackboard any time before the scheduled
exam period. However, if you have NOT completed the exam
by exam time, I WILL NOT ACCEPT AN EXAM IF YOU
DON'T SHOW UP.
In other words, you have two choices: complete the exam
BEFORE exam time or show up during the exam time. If I
do not have your exam before our scheduled meeting time
and you don't show up for the exam time, I WILL GIVE YOU
A ZERO.
FOR MONDAY, APRIL 25
We will be doing "peer review" of your Unit 4 visual argument.
Please have your project ready for "show and tell" and make sure
you have a way to share it with the class.
UPCOMING DUE DATES:
Wed. April 27 - Last day I will accept revisions of Unit 2Friday, April 29 - Unit 4 visual argument due on Bb in Unit 4
2:00 CLASS:
Mon. May 2 - Final exam, 2:00 to 4:00 pm, ANS 253.
3:30 CLASS:
Wed. May 4 - Final exam, 2:00 to 4:00 pm, ANS 308
FOR WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20
The writing portion--the four-page evaluation paper--of Unit 4is due Wednesday, April 20, at midnight.
- If you want to revise Unit 2, you MUST see me by April 20
- Please keep an eye on Bb as I am uploading papers as they
are graded. Revisions are due as soon as humanly possible.
IF YOU MISSED CLASS
Check out the Pp on Course Materials on Color
- Check out the Final Exam prompt on Course Materials
- I am awarding "participation" points for attending class
and working diligently to make good use of class time.
FOR MONDAY, APRIL 18
If you want to revise Unit 2 once more, you MUST come see meby April 20.
Your evaluation paper is due on Bb by Wednesday, April 20
IF YOU MISSED CLASS
Please read the chapter on writing evaluations. It's in Course
Materials under Unit 4 Materials.
The class developed criteria for their evaluations. Because you
missed class, you will have to develop your own. Please note that
you should evaluate a movie if you're making a movie, a poster if
you're making a poster, etc.
FOR WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13
1. Please have a copy of, link to, or picture of the piece you planto evaluate for your paper.
2. Please write up (hard copy so you can give it to me) a quick
idea of what you plan to do for your project. Please include these
things:
- who you see as your audience
- what your thesis is
- what your project will be/what genre or medium
- what you will be evaluating
IF YOU MISSED CLASS:
On the "course materials" page is the Unit 4 handout; you should
read that carefully. Beneath that is a Powerpoint--you won't get
much out of it without discussion, but look at it anyway. Then
follow the instructions above.
FOR MONDAY, APRIL 11
Your Unit 3 paper is due on Bb by 11:59 pm.
FOR WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6
1. Your responses to your peers' papers for peer review need to
be back up on the wiki--with your name at the end--by 11:59 pm
Tuesday night. I am giving credit for doing these WELL and being
helpful, so be helpful! Zero credit if you don't give SUBSTANTIAL
feedback.
2. Please bring a HARD COPY of your unit 3 paper, works cited
and all, to class Wednesday.
3. If you are in my 3:30 class, we meet in ANS 151 on Wednesday.
NO CLASSES MARCH 23, 24, 28, 29, 30
(IN MY CLASS ONLY - CMU is not cancelling classes)
Here is the link to the conference schedule
CONFERENCES are required:
2 HW credits for showing up
Up to 3 HW credits for coming prepared:
1 for having a draft
1 for having questions for me
1 for having all the required elements
(sources, data, data display, data commentary,
sections, secondary research, works cited page
WHEN WE RETURN IN APRIL
EXAM 3 will be Monday, April 4,
Peer review draft posted to your wiki group by Saturday, April 2,(11:59pm)
Peer's papers reviewed and
posted back to the wiki group page by Tuesday, April 5
(11:59pm)
FOR MONDAY, MAR. 21
Your primary research must be completed by Monday. Bring yoursigned interview consent forms, your survey results, or your
observation results to class for credit. You MAY NOT CONDUCT
PRIMARY RESEARCH WITHOUT MY APPROVAL, AND YOU MUST
USE THE CONSENT FORMS.
IF YOU MISSED CLASS:
Watch the Pp on the Course materials page.
If you are not conducting a survey, you will need to find your own data,
as it is required.
We also got signed up for upcoming conferences, so you will
need to sign yourself up here:
Unit 3 Conference Sign Up
FOR WEDNESDAY, MAR. 16
Nothing is due.IF YOU MISSED CLASS you need to email me your
primary research plans for approval. A template for your Unit 3 paper
is in Course Materials.
FOR MONDAY, MAR. 14
Your primary research plans and questions must be complete. So:if you're doing a survey, I need all your survey questions for approval
- if you're doing an interview, I need your interview questions for approval
- if you're doing an observation, I need to know what, when, where, and
what questions you want to answer.
NO RESEARCH MAY BE CONDUCTED WITHOUT MY APPROVAL
IF YOU MISSED CLASS:
Read the "Primary Research" handout in "Course Materials" and prepare
your research as above.
FOR WED MAR. 2
Have your 2 peer-reviewed academic sources, read and annotatethem, and start generating questions for your research
DUE DATES - JUST TO CLARIFY!
2:00 pm classUnit 1 - see me next week for revisions
Unit 2 - was due on Bb Monday, Feb. 22
Unit 3 proposals - were due Wednesday, midnight.
3:30 pm class
Unit 1 - revisions due Friday, Feb. 26, 11:59 pm
Unit 2 - Was due on Bb on Monday, Feb. 22
Unit 3 proposals - were due Wednesday, midnight
SO...
Obviously we had online class on Wednesday. That means thatthere was work for you to do. Some of you did it, and some did not.
For those who have completed their proposals and uploaded them,
you have no homework.
For those who either did not "attend" class Wednesday or simply
did not do the work, you still have a proposal due. It was due
Wednesday at midnight, but you may NOT work on Unit 3 without
an approved proposal.
So submit your proposals to Blackboard in Unit 3
if I have not already gotten yours.
- please watch the Powerpoint on "Reading and Links" on Unit 3
- please read this handout BEFORE you turn yours in.
Proposals are worth 50 points (5% of your grade), so you want to
do well, especially since I will NOT do revisions on these unless
your proposal is rejected. Get these to me ASAP.
FOR MONDAY, FEB. 29
Nothing is due unless I rejected your proposal, which is (was) dueon Wed. Feb. 24 at 11:59 pm on Bb in the "HW and Other" folder
on Bb.
IF YOU MISSED CLASS.
Many of you did not participate in class on Wednesday and lost
credit for that. So if you didn't show up, go to the "Readings and
Links" page of the wiki and watch the Powerpoint. Then go to
the "Course Materials" page and follow the instructions for your
proposals. You will lose 5% per day the proposals are late, so
be sure to turn them in pronto!
FOR WEDNESDAY, FEB. 24
WE ARE MEETING ONLINE TODAY!!!PLEASE GO TO BLACKBOARD PROMPTLY AT CLASS TIME
AND THERE YOU WILL FIND INSTRUCTIONS.
FOR MONDAY, FEB. 22
- We have Exam 2 on Monday. The reading is on the "Readings andLinks" page of the wiki. Please read the article before coming to
the exam. You may print it out and bring it with you, including
notes.
- Your Unit 2 paper is due on Blackboard in the Unit 2 link on
Monday, Feb. 22, at 11:59 pm.
- A rough draft of your Unit 3 proposal will be due in class on
Wednesday, Feb. 24. Please email me with your ideas!
FOR WEDNESDAY, FEB. 17
Wednesday is peer review. Please upload your Unit 2 paper on thegroup page for your class 24 hours before your class time.
This means if you have class at 2:00 Wednesday, you must have
your paper on the wiki by 2:00 Tuesday. Please
FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS EXACTLY on the page to upload.
Either print out the two paper you read or have a laptop in class
REMINDER: 3:30 CLASS: WE ARE IN ANS 151 ON WEDNESDAY
IF YOU MISSED CLASS:
We went over formatting the title page, writing the abstract, page
formatting, and citing issues for APA. You will be responsible for
looking this up on your own and doing it correctly on your paper.
FOR MONDAY, FEB. 15
Rough draft of Unit 2 due. Please bring a digital copy so you canwork on it on the computer.
IF YOU MISSED CLASS
Please go to the "Course Materials" page and at the top, under
"Unit Three Materials" is a handout explaining your proposal
that will be due in two weeks for your Unit 3 project. Keep this
deadline in mind and start brainstorming about your project,
which can be on anything locally researchable that deals with
writing and/or rhetoric and/or language.
FOR WEDNESDAY, FEB. 10
Please have all your research done (6 sources) and have readthem all. Any kind of source is acceptable--no need for academic
sources (although you can use them, too). But reference materials
(dictionaries, wikipedia, etc.) can only be used in addition
to the required 6 sources. Please bring them to class (links
to them are fine).
IF YOU MISSED CLASS:
Please email me and tell me what you want to write your paper on.
We got started on creating a references page in APA
so go to Purdue OWL and look up how to do that.
FOR MONDAY, FEB. 8
Please write up a short paragraph about what you would like to writeyour next paper on. Remember that it has to be a mediation paper,
so you want it to have a sense of controversy to it, and it should
have depth. And it has to have something to do with how humans
use words/are rhetorical.
IF YOU MISSED CLASS:
Read the handout in "Course Materials' for Unit 2. We spent the
whole day working on understanding what a mediated paper is and
possible topics for the paper, so that really can't be made up. Ask
a classmate if you would like to be filled in.
FOR WEDNESDAY, FEB. 3
Please go to the "Readings and Links" page. Find your name andread the two articles below your name. As you read, jot down as
many ideas as you can that answer the question above the readings.
Bring your answers to class.
FOR MONDAY, FEB. 1
1. Your paper is due on Blackboard in "Assignments" under "Unit 1"at 11:59 pm, Monday.
2. you have an exam in class on Monday.
Please read this article, print it out, write on it, annotate, do whatever
you would like and bring it to class with you, and be prepared to write
about it.
IF YOU MISSED CLASS:
We had a style lesson on eliminating the verb "to be"
as it is considered a weak verb. I will be grading you on this, so you
will want to work on getting rid of is, are, were,
and was
FOR WEDNESDAY, JAN. 27
1. READ (all on "Course Materials" page under "General Materials"):- Handout on intros and conclusions
- Handout on thesis statements
- Rubric for Unit 1 paper
2. WRITE:
- Peer review draft due. Please bring 3 hard copies to class.
IF YOU MISSED CLASS:
- We had a style lesson on semi-colons, colons, and dashes.
You should look up how to use these punctuation tools and
implement them in your Unit 1 paper. I will be grading them.
- We created vomit drafts by typing for 10 minutes without your screen
turned on. You should try it.
- We had a lecture on the rhetorical situation (based on the reading).
You may want to get notes from a friend/classmate.
FOR THE END OF THE SEMESTER
UNIT 2: Thu. April 28 - Last day I will accept revisions of Unit 2UNIT 3: Unit 3 revisions - due one week from the time returned to you.
The time it was returned to you will be on Bb.
UNIT 4: Due on Bb at 11:59 pm Friday, April 29
Please upload your visual argument to Bb in Unit 4. Yes, your
Evaluation paper is already there--put your visual argument
there as well. If you cannot upload the actual project,
then create a link to it and upload the link. Please do not email
me your work.
OFFICE HOURS: I do not have official office hours next week
during exams. If you need to meet with me, please email me
to set up a time. I will be on campus Monday, Wednesday,
and Thursday.
HW grades: They have been posted on Bb. There are not final
grades, but are very close. Grammar Game points have
not been calculated yet.
FINALS
Thursday, May 5, 10:00 am, ANS 253.
FINAL: You may complete your final exam as a take-home
and turn it in on Blackboard any time before the scheduled
exam period. However, if you have NOT completed the exam
by exam time, I WILL NOT ACCEPT AN EXAM IF YOU
DON'T SHOW UP.
In other words, you have two choices: complete the exam
BEFORE exam time or show up during the exam time. If I
do not have your exam before our scheduled meeting time
and you don't show up for the exam time, I WILL GIVE YOU
A ZERO.
FOR THURSDAY, APRIL 28
Thursday will be the last day our class meets beforeour final exam time. Please be sure to attend to see the
rest of your peers' work and any final class information
that pertains to revisions, grades, and your finals.
Please see below for upcoming due dates.
In addition, all unit 3 revisions are due within one week of
when I graded it and returned it to you. The grade your paper
was returned to you is recorded in Bb. If you have not gotten
your paper back yet, you will still have one week from
the time it is returned to you. Two revisions, however, is not
likely to happen without a serious need.
FINAL: You may complete your final exam as a take-home
and turn it in on Blackboard any time before the scheduled
exam period. However, if you have NOT completed the exam
by exam time, I WILL NOT ACCEPT AN EXAM IF YOU
DON'T SHOW UP.
In other words, you have two choices: complete the exam
BEFORE exam time or show up during the exam time. If I
do not have your exam before our scheduled meeting time
and you don't show up for the exam time, I WILL GIVE YOU
A ZERO.
FOR TUESDAY, APRIL 26
We will be doing "peer review" of your Unit 4 visual argument.Please have your project ready for "show and tell" and make sure
you have a way to share it with the class.
UPCOMING DUE DATES:
Wed. April 27 - Last day I will accept revisions of Unit 2Friday, April 29 - Unit 4 visual argument due on Bb in Unit 4
Thu. May 5 - Final exam, 10:00am to 12:00noon ANS 253
FOR THURSDAY, APRIL 21
The writing portion--the four-page evaluation paper--of Unit 4is due Thursday, April 21, at midnight.
- If you want to revise Unit 2, you MUST see me by April 20
- Please keep an eye on Bb as I am uploading papers as they
are graded. Revisions are due as soon as humanly possible.
IF YOU MISSED CLASS
Check out the Pp on Course Materials on Color
- Check out the Final Exam prompt on Course Materials
- I am awarding "participation" points for attending class
and working diligently to make good use of class time.
FOR THURSDAY, APRIL 14
1. Please have a copy of, link to, or picture of the piece you planto evaluate for your paper.
2. Please write up (hard copy so you can give it to me) a quick
idea of what you plan to do for your project. Please include these
things:
- who you see as your audience
- what your thesis is
- what your project will be/what genre or medium
- what you will be evaluating
IF YOU MISSED CLASS:
On the "course materials" page is the Unit 4 handout; you should
read that carefully. Beneath that is a Powerpoint--you won't get
much out of it without discussion, but look at it anyway. Then
follow the instructions above.
FOR TUESDAY, APRIL 12
Your Unit 3 paper is due on Bb by 11:59 pm.
FOR THURSDAY, APRIL 7
1. Your responses to your peers' papers for peer review need to
be back up on the wiki--with your name at the end--by 11:59 pm
Wednesday night. I am giving credit for doing these WELL and being
helpful, so be helpful! Zero credit if you don't give SUBSTANTIAL
feedback.
2. Please bring a HARD COPY of your unit 3 paper, works cited
and all, to class Thursday.
NO CLASSES MARCH 23, 24, 28, 29, 30
(IN MY CLASS ONLY - CMU is not cancelling classes)
Here is the link to the conference schedule
CONFERENCES are required:
2 HW credits for showing up
Up to 3 HW credits for coming prepared:
1 for having a draft
1 for having questions for me
1 for having all the required elements
(sources, data, data display, data commentary,
sections, secondary research, works cited page
WHEN WE RETURN IN APRIL
EXAM 3 will be Tuesday, April 5,
Peer review draft posted to your wiki group by Sunday, April 3 (11:59pm),
Peer's papers reviewed and
posted back to the wiki group page by Tuesday, April 5 (11:59pm)
FOR TUESDAY, MAR. 22
Your primary research must be completed by Tuesday. Bring yoursigned interview consent forms, your survey results, or your
observation results to class for credit. You MAY NOT CONDUCT
PRIMARY RESEARCH WITHOUT MY APPROVAL, AND YOU MUST
USE THE CONSENT FORMS.
IF YOU MISSED CLASS:
Watch the Pp on the Course materials page.
If you are not conducting a survey, you will need to find your own data,
as it is required.
We also got signed up for upcoming conferences, so you will
need to sign yourself up here:
Unit 3 Conference Sign Up
FOR THURSDAY, MAR. 17
Nothing is due.IF YOU MISSED CLASS you need to email me your
primary research plans for approval. A template for your Unit 3 paper
is in Course Materials.
FOR TUESDAY, MAR. 15
Your primary research plans and questions must be complete. So:if you're doing a survey, I need all your survey questions for approval
- if you're doing an interview, I need your interview questions for approval
- if you're doing an observation, I need to know what, when, where, and
what questions you want to answer.
NO RESEARCH MAY BE CONDUCTED WITHOUT MY APPROVAL
IF YOU MISSED CLASS:
Read the "Primary Research" handout in "Course Materials" and prepare
your research as above.
FOR THU. MAR. 3
Have your 2 peer-reviewed academic sources, read and annotatethem, and start generating questions for your research
DUE DATES - JUST TO CLARIFY
Unit 1 - see me next week for revisionsUnit 2 - was due on Bb Tuesday, Feb. 23
Unit 3 proposals - were due Thursday night, midnight
SO...
Clearly class was cancelled Thursday, but I had prepared all our workto be done online. Some of you did it, and some did not.
For those who have completed their proposals and uploaded them,
you have no homework.
For those who either did not "attend" class Thursday or simply
did not do the work, you still have a proposal due. It is due
Thursday at midnight, and you may NOT work on Unit 3 without
an approved proposal.
Here is what to do before completing your proposal:
- please watch the Powerpoint on "Reading and Links" on Unit 3
- please read the handout on proposals BEFORE you turn yours in.
Proposals are worth 50 points (5% of your grade), so you want to
do well, especially since I will NOT do revisions on these unless
your proposal is rejected. Get these to me ASAP.
TO HELP YOU STAY ORGANIZED AND ON TOP OF DUE DATES
Unit 1: If you want to revise again, please see me this upcoming week
Unit 2: Was due Tuesday, midnight.
Unit 3 proposals: Due Thursday, Feb. 25, midnight.
FOR THURSDAY, FEB. 25
Unit 2 is due on Bb on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 11:59 pm.Unit 3 proposals--we will be working on these in class on
Thursday (barring a snowstorm) so please bring your laptops
if you have one or a printed version of your proposal.
We will (hopefully) finish them in class on Thursday.
FOR TUESDAY, FEB. 23
- We have Exam 2 on Tuesday. The reading is on the "Readings andLinks" page of the wiki. Please read the article before coming to
the exam. You may print it out and bring it with you, including
notes.
- Revisions of Unit 1 are due on Bb on Friday, Feb. 19 at 11:59 pm.
- Your Unit 2 paper is due on Blackboard in the Unit 2 link on
Tuesday, Feb. 23, at 11:59 pm.
- A rough draft of your Unit 3 proposal will be due in class on
Thursday, Feb. 25. Please email me with your ideas!
FOR THURSDAY, FEB. 18
Thursday is peer review. Please upload your Unit 2 paper on thegroup page for your class 24 hours before your class time.
which means by 11:00 am Wednesday morning.. Please
FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS EXACTLY on the page to upload.
Either print out the two paper you read or have a laptop in class
FOR TUESDAY, FEB. 16
Rough/vomit draft of Unit 2 due. Please bring a digital copy towork on in class.
IF YOU MISSED CLASS
Please go to the "Course Materials" page and at the top, under
"Unit Three Materials" is a handout explaining your proposal
that will be due in two weeks for your Unit 3 project. Keep this
deadline in mind and start brainstorming about your project,
which can be on anything locally researchable that deals with
writing and/or rhetoric and/or language.
FOR THURSDAY, FEB. 11
Please have all your research done (6 sources) and have readthem all. Any kind of source is acceptable--no need for academic
sources (although you can use them, too). But reference materials
(dictionaries, wikipedia, etc.) can only be used in addition
to the required 6 sources. Please bring them to class (links
to them are fine).
IF YOU MISSED CLASS:
Please email me and tell me what you want to write your paper on.
We got started on creating a references page in APA
so go to Purdue OWL and look up how to do that.
FOR TUESDAY, FEB. 9
Please write up a short paragraph about what you would like to writeyour next paper on. Remember that it has to be a mediation paper,
so you want it to have a sense of controversy to it, and it should
have depth. And it has to have something to do with how humans
use words/are rhetorical.
IF YOU MISSED CLASS:
Read the handout in "Course Materials' for Unit 2. We spent the
whole day working on understanding what a mediated paper is and
possible topics for the paper, so that really can't be made up. Ask
a classmate if you would like to be filled in.
FOR THURSDAY, FEB. 4
Please go to the "Readings and Links" page. Find your name and read the twoarticles below your name. As you read, jot down as many ideas as you can
that answer the question above the readings. Bring your answers to class.
FOR TUESDAY, FEB. 2
1. Your paper is due on Blackboard in "Assignments"under "Unit 1" at 11:59 pm, Tuesday.
2. you have an exam in class on Tuesday.
Please read this article, print it out, write on it, annotate, do whatever
you would like and bring it to class with you, and be prepared to write about it.
IF YOU MISSED CLASS:
We had a style lesson on eliminating the verb "to be"
as it is considered a weak verb. I will be grading you on this, so you will want
to work on getting rid of is, are, were,
and was.
FOR THURSDAY, JAN. 28
Please print out three copies of your paper for peer reviewand bring them to class.
IF YOU MISSED CLASS:
READ (all on "Course Materials" page under "General Materials"):
- Handout on intros and conclusions
- Handout on thesis statements
- Rubric for Unit 1 paper
FOR TUESDAY, JAN. 26
Vomit draft due. We will be working on it in class.Handouts on logos, pathos, and ethos are in Course Materials
under "General Materials"
FOR THURSDAY, JAN. 21 AND MONDAY JAN. 25
Please read the Rhetorical Situation article and be prepared to specifically discuss the terms exigence, rhetor, author, and constraints.FOR TUESDAY, JAN. 19 or WEDNESDAY, JAN. 20 (ALL CLASSES)
Please read the chapter on Cause and Effect on the "Course Materials" page under Unit 1 materials.Also write up a brief paragraph about the word you would like to write your first paper about. Tell me what word you've chosen and why, what you're thinking about discussing. You should also choose a second (and third?) word for a back up, and I can choose which one I think will work the best. If you are struggling to come up with something, please email me!
2:00 WEDNESDAY CLASS: please bring your laptop to class on Wednesday. You'll need it.
IF YOU MISSED CLASS:
Please watch the TED video on the "Readings and Links" page, and read the "Critical Thinking Guide" that is on the same page.
Also read the Unit 1 handout on the "Course Materials" page. Be sure to read the "Unit 1 - MW" which is for Monday/Wednesday classes.
FOR WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13 OR THURSDAY, JANUARY 14
Please read THIS ARTICLE and write a response to it by answering this question: in what ways does what Trimble says relate to your own writing? Just a half page or so. Bring to class.